52nd Seattle International Film Festival – Call for Entry 2026

By Asian Film Festival on August 29, 2025 • ( Leave a comment )

Dear Asian filmmakers, the Seattle International Film Festival (United States) is accepting films until January 8, 2026.

About the festival:
The Seattle International Film Festival is consistently ranked as one of the top festivals in North America, and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short films, presenting more than 260 features, documentaries, and short films to an audience of roughly 90,000 each year.

SIFF started out as an event aimed squarely at Seattle filmgoers, renowned for their strong support for independent cinema and their sophisticated, maverick tastes. Through the years, Seattle audiences have proven themselves to be remarkably astute judges of a film’s theatrical strength in the American marketplace. This, in turn, has made SIFF a great testing ground for new films. SIFF’s emphasis on keeping the Festival an event aimed first and foremost at filmgoers, provides the films themselves with the kind of genuine audience response that has attracted the participation of filmmakers and film distributors for 51 years.

Eligibility:
– The festival accepts short films (under 40 minutes) and feature films (over 40 minutes).
– The festival accepts narrative, documentary, and experimental films.
– Films submitted must have premiered on or after January 2025.
– Films must be at minimum Western Washington State Premiere, and will consider films that have been screened both in-person and online as part of other Virtual Festivals elsewhere in the US.
– Foreign language films must be made available with the original language soundtrack and English subtitles.
– You may re-submit a previously submitted film, with the proper entry fee, only if the film has been significantly altered, re-edited or re-made since the initial submission.
– Submissions must be made via FilmFreeway.
– Submission Fees and Deadlines: